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...World of Henry Orient By Nora Johnson Green Mansion Press...
...Front of Liberia (N.P.F.L.) broke away and formed a separate faction led by Prince Yeduo Johnson, an army captain. Johnson and about 400 of his rebels captured, tortured and then killed Doe on Sept. 10, but about 1,000 of the slain President's followers still hold the executive mansion in Monrovia and are fighting on. A 6,000-man, five-nation West African peacekeeping force, strangely named the Economic Community Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), began to arrive in Liberia in August but has been unable to stop the shooting. In fact, it has become actively involved in the war, mounting...
...next day I was told that another "President," Prince Johnson, wanted to meet "one of those people who was with Taylor," and so I was taken the following day to his "executive mansion," which is located in an office building near the harbor. Parked outside was the late President Doe's silver Mercedes. Dressed in military fatigues, Johnson punctuated his pronouncements by waving a cigar in one hand and a can of beer in the other. Though his troops had occasionally fought alongside ECOMOG against the N.P.F.L., Johnson was nearly as hostile to the peacekeeping force...
There is nothing like a tour of Gaza City to show the clash of styles between the old Palestinian guard and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that swept January's legislative elections. First stop: the gabled, stone mansion of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, high walled and with enough guards to protect Fort Knox. Next: the residence of Ismail Haniya, the newly designated Prime Minister. Haniya, 43, insists on living at his family home?in a Gaza slum, where the lanes are crisscrossed with Hamas' Islamic green flags and clotheslines of wet laundry. There are no gunmen outside Haniya's simple...
...history of using every weapon and tactic against her and the plans for raising money through personal appearances and on the Internet. Participants reported that each presentation was focused on 2006, and organizers underlined their short-term focus. The day was capped by a dinner party at a Georgetown mansion where Clinton spoke after her husband introduced...